Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents
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This Act may be cited as the . Craig Thomas Rural Hospital and Provider Equity Act of 2014 The table of contents of this Act is as follows: Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. Sec. 2. Sense of the Senate. Sec. 3. Fairness in the Medicare disproportionate share hospital
(DSH)adjustment for rural hospitals. Sec. 4. Extension and expansion of the Medicare hold harmless provision under the prospective payment system for hospital outpatient department
(HOPD)services for certain hospitals. Sec. 5. Temporary improvements to the Medicare inpatient hospital payment adjustment for low-volume hospitals. Sec. 6. Extension of Medicare wage index reclassifications for certain hospitals. Sec. 7. Extension of Medicare reasonable costs payments for certain clinical diagnostic laboratory tests furnished to hospital patients in certain rural areas. Sec. 8. Elimination of isolation test for cost-based ambulance reimbursement for critical access hospitals. Sec. 9. Capital infrastructure revolving loan program. Sec. 10. Extension of Medicare incentive payment program for physician scarcity areas. Sec. 11. Extension of floor on Medicare work geographic adjustment. Sec. 12. Recognition of attending physician assistants as attending physicians to serve hospice patients. Sec. 13. Improving care planning for Medicare home health services. Sec. 14. Rural health clinic improvements. Sec. 15. Temporary Medicare payment increase for home health services furnished in a rural area. Sec. 16. Extension of increased Medicare payments for rural ground ambulance services. Sec. 17. Coverage of marriage and family therapist services and mental health counselor services under Part B of the Medicare program. Sec. 18. Extension of payment for technical component of certain physician pathology services. Sec. 19. Facilitating the provision of telehealth services across State lines. Sec. 20. Medicare Part A payment for anesthesiologist services in certain rural hospitals based on CRNA pass-through rules. Sec. 21. Temporary floor on the practice expense geographic index for services furnished in rural areas outside of frontier States under the Medicare physician fee schedule. Sec. 22. Revisions to standard for designation of sole community hospitals. Sec. 23. Medicare treatment of standby and on-call time for CRNA services. Sec. 24. State offices of rural health. Sec. 25. Removing Medicare 96-hour physician certification requirement for inpatient critical access hospital services. Sec. 26. Extension of enforcement instruction on supervision requirements for outpatient therapeutic services in critical access and small rural hospitals through 2014.